@tastingwords.bsky.social
Artist, abolitionist, entheonaut, web dev, queer
"Iβm sure mistakes were made... I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says. Itβs like that βOfficeβ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake.β -Sahil Lavingia, an ex-DOGE programmer who built an AI tool to identify VA contracts to cut
We obtained records showing how an ex-DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill.
βI would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says,β he said.
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Everything thatβs happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
09.06.2025 00:39 β π 56209 π 17117 π¬ 884 π 827An article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable", posted on Medium. There is a soft paywall asking you to sign in, covering most of the article. Screenshot found on Mastodon https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/114497234942335666
14.05.2025 00:23 β π 17767 π 6443 π¬ 7 π 250Charcoal and soft pastel drawing of a Bernese mountain dog looking to the left with her tongue out. Head and shoulders in frame
Trying to stay sane by drawing more pups⦠this is my best girl Stevie Nicks #art #drawing #charcoal #pastel
10.03.2025 01:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ππ
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RIP, Roy Ayers
WSJ Breaking News 2h ago The Trump administration is cancelling roughly $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University over allegations of antisemitism
You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove youβre not a filthy commie and theyβll still do this to you and all youβll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
07.03.2025 20:09 β π 8995 π 2155 π¬ 14 π 64I've got some #darkart to share! All via Micron 005 fineliners in my crappy sketchbook.
08.03.2025 02:26 β π 71 π 16 π¬ 2 π 0Painting of a woman with short purple hair, round gold glasses, and a blue/grey/green shirt collar, the rest of her body not in view. Behind her is a solid green/seafoam/mint background.
Closeup detail of the face/glasses on the same painting
Van Gogh inspired self portrait, 11x14β acrylic on canvas. First attempt at glasses, but I still really love the color palette on this one.
#art #painting #acrylic #selfportrait
I love that he did that. I like to imagine he spent 50 years with it gnawing at him that he burned such a great title on his first awful student film or whatever. Only to realize what he truly wanted to say with it much later
17.02.2025 20:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Lisa Sterle's incredible Ten of Swords tarot card from the Modern Witch tarot, depicting a woman with long hair lying on a jagged landscape under an ominous sky. She's stuck full of swords and looking at her phone. It's captioned EVERYTHING IS FINE.
14.02.2025 19:04 β π 7309 π 1803 π¬ 61 π 69Love the Gizzy one!
12.02.2025 01:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Emily Austin @emilyraustin We went from kneeling during the National Anthem to a Halftime Show showcasing USA Flag colors! We're so back 8:38 PM β’ Feb 9, 2025
George @BehizyTweets A few years ago, they were endorsing burning the USA flag, and now Samuel L. Jackson is Uncle Sam at the Super Bowl. Hollywood is desperately trying to get America to pay attention to them again. 8:30 PM β’ Feb 9, 2025
Omar Navarro @RealOmarNavarro FINALLY a non woke Satanic halftime show Kendrick Lamar is showing off the American Flag I LOVE THIS 8:42 PM β’ Feb 9, 2025
Svishtakrit @svishtakrit We are so back... finally, NFL joins in celebrating US Flag instead of disrespecting during half time... pardon me if he said something offensive, but the flag display by the performers was amazing.. I didn't pay attention to lyrics... 8:37 PM β’ Feb 9, 2025
way funnier than the conservatives who hated Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show are the conservatives who thought he was doing the ultimate patriotic ode to America
10.02.2025 17:18 β π 9765 π 1910 π¬ 326 π 407Fun fact Google doesn't give you AI suggestions if you swear
09.02.2025 12:44 β π 2348 π 940 π¬ 42 π 60Oops π¬
08.02.2025 01:50 β π 77653 π 19452 π¬ 1003 π 849ββ¦Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots.β
07.02.2025 15:35 β π 1364 π 631 π¬ 28 π 57Drawing on newsprint paper, clipped to a draing board of a woman with shoulder-length hair, round gold glasses, and a black tank top. Color tones range from bright lime green, dark blue, gold, and medium orange, as well as black from charcoal. She is looking at the viewer with an unsmiling but open expression.
Self portrait from life, 18x24β on newsprint. Making a mess with chalk pastels feels so cathartic. Love you all - take care of each other π
#art #charcoal #pastel #drawing
People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. βDavid Lynch
I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
David Lynch saying one day the sadness will end. R.I.P.
16.01.2025 18:42 β π 2786 π 807 π¬ 5 π 24An image showing a postcard and sticker featuring a red fire poppy and a California dogface butterfly, both endemic species found only in Southern California. The proceeds will be donated to LA Food Bank, California Community Foundation, Pasadena Humane Society, and the California Fire Foundation.
πΈ CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE RELIEF FUNDRAISER πΈ
I will be donating the proceeds of my fire poppy & California dogface butterfly stickers and postcards to organizations helping out the people of Los Angeles who are displaced and have been affected by the fires. π below! Reshares are immensely appreciatedβ€οΈ
Wow. Impeccable
11.01.2025 21:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A smudgy black and white charcoal drawing of a Bernese mountain dog puppy. She is looking at the viewer with her mouth open with fluffed-up ears, like sheβs smiling and waiting for a treat. #art #charcoal #drawing #sketch #doodle
Feeling overwhelmed by the constant, completely-avoidable tragedies around the world caused by greed, hate, and bigotry soooo hereβs a little charcoal doodle of my good friendβs sweet puppy. Meet Ludacris
11.01.2025 01:15 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A cat with his eyes very far apart looking like that sloth from ice age. In front of his face is a loading circle.
this is how i be staring at the canvas waiting for the painting to come to me
28.04.2024 01:50 β π 33 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0A watercolor coat of arms featuring three stylised pairs of testicles
just found out there was a medieval italian guy called bartolomeo coglioni which means "bartholomew balls" and his coat of arms was three pairs of balls and his war cry was "coglia! coglia! coglia!" which means "balls! balls! balls!"
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